Kepler v. Kepler’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably HORNSBY v. LOHMEYER (1950), Sokoloff v. Strick (1961)
42 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pattin v. Scott · Allinger v. Melvin · Rice v. Braden · Schuster v. Largman · Allegany Gas Co. v. Kemp
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A provision in a will making it a condition precedent to the devise that the farm and mansion house be inalienable and not subject to encumbrance is an unlawful restraint against alienation and void; the property passes without restriction. The condition in the present case is almost identical with that in Kaufman v. Burgert, 195 Pa. 274 , where it was decided that the will passed an unconditional fee simple to the devisee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanderslice Estate
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.